do we think there's a support ukraine element or nah
― very interesting piece by (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 7 April 2022 10:53 (two years ago) link
my hunch is nah and that the owner has a highly open mind re claims on facebook about ukr bio-warfare labs
― very interesting piece by (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 7 April 2022 10:55 (two years ago) link
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/offensive-adverts-by-burger-van-23728773
― Number One shlong in Devon (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 08:03 (two years ago) link
A tweet posted on March 27 this year stated 'burgers for dinner?' Below was an image of missing Madeleine and her mother, Kate, alongside text which stated 'with burgers this good, you'll leave your kids at home. What's the worst that could happen?'
In the background, a man was shown running with a smaller image of Madeleine in his hands, said watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). Text at the bottom of the post stated 'Happy Mother's Day to all the mums out there'.
― Number One shlong in Devon (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 08:04 (two years ago) link
this is the set-up (tl;dr):
Lord Judge’s speech highlights the contradictory nature of the assurances offered by the government. Either the Commission is independent, or it is not. A ministerial statement cannot both direct the Commission and at the same time not fetter it. Else what’s it for? pic.twitter.com/xXmyTpjb5j— James B (@piercepenniless) April 28, 2022
― mark s, Thursday, 28 April 2022 22:08 (one year ago) link
this is the reveal: his proper name and title is igor judge, baron judge
pic.twitter.com/nLWM0wDImH— North Norfolk Police (@NorthNorfPolice) May 2, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 2 May 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
another light-hearted local tradition is it?
― Number One shlong in Devon (Noodle Vague), Monday, 2 May 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
Is.... is that St. John Paul II??? pic.twitter.com/gUKTuEPkhX— Timothy H.J. Nerozzi 庭夢 (@TimothyNerozzi) May 2, 2022
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 2 May 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
I think it's spelled 'potpourri', yeah?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 2 May 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSFzBE7XIAEhem1?format=jpg&name=900x900
CAPTAIN TOM® Seafood Restaurant. Some lovely prints of British Malayan concentration camps on the wall from his old photo album I hear. I presume his grasping family are behind this odious enterprise.
― calzino, Saturday, 7 May 2022 11:17 (one year ago) link
There is one in Hornchurch as well.
― calzino, Saturday, 7 May 2022 11:18 (one year ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-61412523
The show at the Conservative Club in Seaham, County Durham, on 29 April saw blood-soaked performers attack each other with a garden strimmer and glass.The Colliery Championship Wrestling (CCW) event did not advertise it would be a so-called death match and had offered discounted family tickets.James Barrass of CCW apologised but said the audience had enjoyed it.
The Colliery Championship Wrestling (CCW) event did not advertise it would be a so-called death match and had offered discounted family tickets.
James Barrass of CCW apologised but said the audience had enjoyed it.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 12 May 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
From the Guardian story covering the same event.
A video of the event, circulated online, shows children watching a blood-covered wrestler in his underpants using an electric lawn strimmer to cut his opponent, Ronnie Thatcher. Someone watching says: “A strimmer is for cutting grass, not Ronnie Thatcher.”
― AlanSmithee, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 07:19 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/CtEEUlU.png
― mark s, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
is that a cave painting
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
is real england a cave? (ans: yes, yes it is)
― mark s, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
like Plato's Cave?
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
morbo's cave
― mark s, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
courtroom sketch artist adding Dan Dare eyebrows just unfortunately makes him look a bit like Gary Glitter
― calzino, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
this one goes out to calz
pic.twitter.com/MZq3PhvVKu— No Context Brits (@NoContextBrits) May 19, 2022
― what doesn't kill me makes me Hongroe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 May 2022 08:35 (one year ago) link
lol that story made all the national press, quite right as well.
― calzino, Thursday, 19 May 2022 09:02 (one year ago) link
he could have capitalised on his brief moment of fame, Gerald Stratford style .. cheers
― calzino, Thursday, 19 May 2022 09:04 (one year ago) link
a kid in my class was in the sheffield star because his dad grew bananas in their yard
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
Snuck past the cashier. pic.twitter.com/Ycqr80Gs5K— Neil (@_Enanem_) May 20, 2022
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Friday, 20 May 2022 09:53 (one year ago) link
somebody on my work slack just called somebody else a "dirty stop-out"!!
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 20 May 2022 12:08 (one year ago) link
mere light-hearted banter
― what doesn't kill me makes me Hongroe (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 May 2022 12:11 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/20/john-shuttleworth-gig-abandoned-in-derbyshire-after-man-falls-into-cavern
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 20 May 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
must be worth a new song
― what doesn't kill me makes me Hongroe (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
think you were missing a trick not to post that the place was called Devil's Arse tbh
― even the birds in the trees seemed to whisper "get fucked" (bovarism), Saturday, 21 May 2022 01:26 (one year ago) link
come, friendly bombs
WWII veteran John Pearce is releasing a single to honour the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.“She was a real inspiration during the war and has continued to lead by example."Thank You Your Majesty is a reworking of Go West by The Village People.📺 Freeview 237, Sky 526, Virgin 627 pic.twitter.com/ZHjqZn0qEX— TalkTV (@TalkTV) May 20, 2022
― what doesn't kill me makes me Hongroe (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 May 2022 11:58 (one year ago) link
"in british english, the primary meaning of to go west is to die; this phrase later came to also mean: – to be lost, to be destroyed; – to disappear, to vanish; – to end in failure, to come to grief"
nothing left but symptom: showing this to a stunned and for-once silent zizek
― mark s, Saturday, 21 May 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
remind me not to retune my Freeview box
― koogs, Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:28 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTX0Q5sXoAArEtK?format=jpg&name=900x900
― calzino, Monday, 23 May 2022 11:51 (one year ago) link
oh, is there a new tindersticks album?
― koogs, Monday, 23 May 2022 13:13 (one year ago) link
it's just a lesson in capturing form from Rembrandt that the courtroom sketch artist upthread could possibly learn from. And it just happens to look like Wazza.
― calzino, Monday, 23 May 2022 13:22 (one year ago) link
Stoked for the madness.
We're doing so well over here, we're holding it togetherhttps://t.co/2BPaF9mio8— Rebecca Wilks (@WilksBecca) May 26, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 May 2022 09:53 (one year ago) link
Michael Buerk, once a presenter on BBC six o clock news, now reduced to hawking novelty coins. A tragic fall pic.twitter.com/W3u5EQig89— Simon (@simonk_133) May 26, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 May 2022 10:43 (one year ago) link
Britain unveiled its biggest ever coin to mark Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee https://t.co/lMBs6qU13K pic.twitter.com/hABULdwG0z— Reuters (@Reuters) May 25, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 May 2022 10:44 (one year ago) link
they forgot to add Buerk also shares presenting duties on The Moral Maze with Aaronovitch, which would be the worst program on R4 if not for their comedy dept.
― calzino, Thursday, 26 May 2022 10:56 (one year ago) link
Don't forget Great Lives, that's up there. Though I think for poison injected into British political media culture, nothing can really beat The Moral Maze.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 26 May 2022 11:05 (one year ago) link
The Royal Family, worth an estimated £72bn, won't pay the minimum wage for staff https://t.co/zhZEdIgSZi— Tom Peters (@tbtpeters) May 26, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 May 2022 12:08 (one year ago) link
That kind of thing is one reason they have so much money to be fair. Another involves shape-shifting.
― ARP Odysséas (Matt #2), Thursday, 26 May 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
Was gonna say that even for this psychotic country the dissonance of all this jubilee bollocks going on while everything just gets worse and worse is gonna be wild, but then I remembered all the 2012 shite happening within a year of riots
― gop on ya gingrich (wins), Friday, 27 May 2022 07:29 (one year ago) link
Silver Jubilee, 1981 Royal wedding... it's almost like these things get more hysterical and north korean the more society seems to be crumbling. I remember 2002 as being relatively muted tbh, that was pre-Iraq, high Blairism end of politics times.
― Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, Western Mail (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 27 May 2022 08:18 (one year ago) link
the backdrop of the invention of monarchy as mass public spectacle back in the 1890s was a decade of social and political unrest in the UK and the wider empire -- so i'm not convinced this element has amped up really (i am convinced that the sense of collapse is far greater, as is the actual fact of brokenness)
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 08:26 (one year ago) link
I just read that book by Tom Nairn about all this.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Friday, 27 May 2022 10:49 (one year ago) link
i probably got my shtick from it lol
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 11:15 (one year ago) link
still think he shd have mentioned the pistols tho
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTxkfZZWIAEsGwH?format=jpg&name=medium
― calzino, Saturday, 28 May 2022 07:52 (one year ago) link